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Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961. First Impression. Paperbound. In quite good condition./No Dust Jacket. Royal octavo [25cm/10 inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. x, 493. Illustrated with 5 maps. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. ... Ulithi Atoll,is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific ... Lessa's obituary notes, (in part): "William A. Bill Lessa, 89, Professor, Emeritus of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, and a major contributor both to Micronesian studies and the anthropology of religion, died in Los Angeles on October 14, 1997, after a long illness.. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1928 and worked as a Research Associate at the University of Hawaii. Bill was fascinated in folklore and, in 1961, published Tales from Ulithi Atoll, a magisterial work that is often held to be a model of the genre. A few years earlier, in 1956, he published a paper entitled…
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